Aller Media is a

magazine A magazine is a periodical publication, generally published on a regular schedule (often weekly or monthly), containing a variety of content. They are generally financed by advertising, purchase price, prepaid subscriptions, or by a combinatio ...

publisher in the

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, headquartered in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan a ...

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. It publishes ''Elle'', ''Cafe'', ''

Familie Journalen ''Familie Journalen'' is a Danish language weekly family and women's magazine published in Copenhagen, Denmark. Launched in 1877 the magazine is one of the oldest publications in the country. It was also published in Norway and Sweden. History a ...

'', '' Femina'', ''Allers'' and ''Se og Hør''.

History

Aller Media was founded in

in 1873 by

Carl Aller Carl Julius Aller (25 November 1845 - 23 August 1926) was a Danish publisher of the late 19th and early 20th century and founder of Aller Media, the largest publisher of weekly magazines in the Nordic countries and still controlled by the Aller f ...

and his wife Laura Aller. It expanded into

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and

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in the 1890s and into

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in 1992. In August, 2009, Aller Press A/S changed its name to Aller Media A/S. The same year Aller moved into a new headquarters at

Havneholmen Havneholmen (literally "The Harbour Isle") is a mixed-use development located on reclaimed land off Kalvebod Brygge in the harbor of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is located just east of the shopping centre Fisketorvet from which it is separated by a na ...

. The building is designed by

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Magazines and newspapers

Aller's publications are among the most read in Sweden. It publishes 34 magazines every month which are read by over 4 million people including the best selling magazine in Sweden as of 2004, the TV Guide ''Se & Hör'', which is published in Norway and Denmark as ''

Se og Hør ''Se og Hør'' (; "See and Hear") is a TV guide and celebrity journalism magazine published in three independent versions in Denmark, Norway and Sweden (where it is called ''Se & Hör'' ) by the Danish company Aller Media. The Danish version i ...

''. ''Allers'' magazine is distributed in Norway and Sweden for the mature female market group. It traces its origins from the Danish weekly '' Illustreret Familie-Journal'', founded in 1877 by Carl Aller. In 1894 it moved base to

Helsingborg Helsingborg (, , , ) is a city and the seat of Helsingborg Municipality, Scania (Skåne), Sweden. It is the second-largest city in Scania (after Malmö) and ninth-largest in Sweden, with a population of 113,816 (2020). Helsingborg is the cent ...

and changed its name to the ''Allers Family-Journal''. In 1959 the name was changed to ''Allers Family Journal'', which in 1968 was shortened to ''Allers''. The original magazine was a pioneer in including crosswords and cartoons in magazines in Sweden. ''Allers'' is the oldest magazine still in circulation in Norway where it has been published since 1897. In June 2013, Aller Media bought ''

Dagbladet ''Dagbladet'' (lit.: ''The Daily Magazine'') is one of Norway's largest newspapers and is published in the tabloid format. It has 1,400,000 daily readers on mobile, web and paper. Traditionally ''Dagbladet'' is considered the main liberal newsp ...

'' with online products from Berner Gruppen for reportedly about 300 million

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. In February 2014 the company acquired several Finnish

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and lifestyle magazines from

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, namely ''

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'', ''Divaani'' and '' Olivia''. In Sweden, editorial offices are today (2009) located in

Stockholm Stockholm () is the capital and largest city of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in Scandinavia. Approximately 980,000 people live in the municipality, with 1.6 million in the urban area, and 2.4 million in the metropo ...

, Göteborg,

and

Malmö Malmö (, ; da, Malmø ) is the largest city in the Swedish county (län) of Scania (Skåne). It is the third-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm and Gothenburg, and the sixth-largest city in the Nordic region, with a municipal popul ...

. In 2015 Aller Media launched ''L33t Magazine'', an online

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publication focusing on

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and competitive

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s. The team is based in

. The company appeared to have halted publication of new articles on the ''L33t Magazine'' website after the end of 2015.

References

External links

Official site in English
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History

Magazines and newspapers

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